Environment

Political opinion: the race for the 2016 election begins

Contributor to The LeaderApril 17, 2015August 16, 2019

April 17, 2015August 16, 2019

CHARLES PRITCHARD Staff Writer Spring is in the air. The weather is growing warmer, the birds are returning home and the race for the 2016 presidential election is in full swing. The promises that politicians make around this time let the farmers know when to plant the crops. Speculations outnumber......

Sports

Desens breaks record, Blue Devils women finish third, men fifth

Contributor to The LeaderApril 10, 2015

April 10, 2015

SEAN MCGRATH Sports Editor When it comes to indoor and outdoor shot put records, senior Nicole Desens now owns them both. The Fredonia Blue Devils track and field team travelled to Delaware, Ohio, this week for the Marv Frye Invitational at Ohio Wesleyan University, where Desens’ shot put......

Life & Arts

The unsung failures of VR

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 26, 2015

March 26, 2015

MO SADEK Staff Writer In the past two years, tech news outlets and game tastemakers have raved about the coming of the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality headset that would allow gamers to take part in their games from the inside. Then came Playstation’s Project Morpheus, a VR experience that......

News

Faculty Spotlight: Professor’s original work performed at Carnegie Hall Harmonia Chamber Singers performed Deemer’s composition in Weill Recital Hall

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 26, 2015August 15, 2019

March 26, 2015August 15, 2019

MEGHAN GUATTERY Assistant News Editor If you had asked college-aged Rob Deemer what he thought he would do when he finished his studies, he would have told you he would be teaching band at a suburban Chicago high school. College-aged Deemer could not have been more wrong. Today, he is......

Life & Arts

No Impact Series, Pt. 2: a week without sanity

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 13, 2015

March 13, 2015

NAOMI LYNCH Staff Writer In last week’s article, I reported on the “No Impact Man” documentary that featured a couple and their child living a life of minimal impact for a year. Since I talked the talk, it’s time for me to walk the walk: could I live a week......

Life & Arts

No Impact Week, Part 1 “No Impact Man” Documentary Review

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 6, 2015

March 6, 2015

NAOMI LYNCH Staff Writer Have you ever thought about making no impact on, say, the world? Colin Beavan, the self-titled “No Impact Man,” has. In 2007, Beavan, his wife Michelle and their young daughter lived one full year making as minimal of an impact on the world as possible. This......

Scallion

How to nap on campus

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 5, 2015

March 5, 2015

LEO FRANK Lampoon Editor They say to write what you know. Unfortunately, there’s a lot I don’t know. I don’t know how to make chicken cordon bleu, for example. I don’t know why people keep sharing Buzzfeed articles on Facebook, and I don’t know how to work Excel spreadsheets. But......

News

New class spotlight: Global Change Biology Class focuses on the effects of global change on the past, present and future

Contributor to The LeaderMarch 4, 2015

March 4, 2015

AMANDA DEDIE Staff Writer Global change — the topic everyone talks about but no one can agree on. Is it real? Are we over-exaggerating? Does it really matter if, most likely, none of us will be alive to see any catastrophic effects? It is well-known that what has happened in......

Life & Arts

5 Things That are Killing Games

Contributor to The LeaderFebruary 25, 2015

February 25, 2015

MO SADEK Staff Writer There was a time when being a gamer was easy. Look back at the Nintendo 64. You would buy one game, shove it in the console, make sure all your video cables and wires were plugged into the right place, add a controller and you were......

Life & Arts

“Balm in Gilead” to open in Bartlett

Contributor to The LeaderFebruary 25, 2015

February 25, 2015

REBECCA HALE Reverb Editor “Balm in Gilead,” the first in this semester’s Walter Gloor Mainstage Series, will pack a punch this weekend with an elaborate set, unconventional theatrical devices and its cinematic nature. The small space of the Bartlett Theatre will be packed with 35 cast members alone, plus an......

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No Impact Series, Pt. 2: a week without sanity

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How to nap on campus

New class spotlight: Global Change Biology Class focuses on the effects of global change on the past, present and future

5 Things That are Killing Games

“Balm in Gilead” to open in Bartlett